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I found a collection of small audio documentaries recently. They were on cassette so the quality after 30 odd years isn’t great. The talent is historian Peter Forrest.
Men and Cattle is a history of development of the cattle industry in northern Austraia but touches on a lot of other themes.
Part one: The Overlanders
Part two: The Journeys Back
Part three: Settlement Creek
Part four: The journey west from the Queensland border
Part five: Life on the trail
This is a presentation I delivered to 2nd year Journalism students at the University of Queensland.
The students were studying “Convergence”
In February 2010 we launched the most recent iteration of ABC Local, by my calculation the fifth I’ve been involved in.
This time the project took 14 months but when you consider there are 54 sites and hundred of thousands of pages, along with significant photo, audio and video media files this is not as long as you might think.
Tools for modern journalism was a presentation prepared for primarily post-graduate students and staff of the University of Queenslands Journalism faculty. The talk was part of the JACtalk series.
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This presentation was made to web developers and editors as part of a knowledge sharing exercise.
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This is a presentation made to first year Journalism students at the University of Queensland. it was used as part of the Radio subject.
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In 2002 I studied for my Certificate IV in workplace assessment and training, gaining the certificate in April that year.
In 1998 I built my first web site, a corporate brochure site for 612 ABC Brisbane, then called 4QR.
Looking back on the frames based navigation, the animated email gif, and the rather cumbersome graphics it seems somewhat naive.
In the late 1990’s I stopped off in Maleny, Queensland where I interviewed architect Ahtee Chia about the straw bale house he had built.
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Talent: Ahtee Chia, architect and builder
( To air: Weekends, 6 March 1998, Duration: 04:56 )
